what is blizzard going to do about abusive chat

[DemiseKey]

silencing people does not work, because as soon as they are un-silenced they go right back to saying slurs in chat. i barely see people who are legit hacking (have the game codes), get banned... let alone people saying horrible ♥♥♥♥ to others that they would not say in public.

[CuCbku_AkuM6o]

nothing i guess. its hard to automatize ai to detect a violator and avoid it from banning innocent people also to make it work for different languages. you just have to grow a pair and stop being a snowflake cus internet cant be your personal safespace.

[Basarab Laiota]

They gave Blizzard money so they are allowed to stay

[Shae ☥ #bday]

Nothing, you have to report those things yourself until they get banned.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

idk what you mean, I've heard stories about toxic players being banned left and right lol

[Mr.Bean]

stop being a ♥♥♥♥♥ lol bunch of sensitive snowflakes

[Koba]

Originally posted by DemiseKey:

silencing people does not work, because as soon as they are un-silenced they go right back to saying slurs in chat. i barely see people who are legit hacking (have the game codes), get banned... let alone people saying horrible ♥♥♥♥ to others that they would not say in public.

This game suspends people for saying "ez"... LEAVE.

[Max]

Originally posted by Koba:

Originally posted by DemiseKey:

silencing people does not work, because as soon as they are un-silenced they go right back to saying slurs in chat. i barely see people who are legit hacking (have the game codes), get banned... let alone people saying horrible ♥♥♥♥ to others that they would not say in public.

This game suspends people for saying "ez"... LEAVE.

if you are pro widdow you will get all report you

[Nateyooh]

If you can't handle some sh*t talk in gaming, maybe you shouldn't play online games to beginn with

[Venenati]

Better mute the chat than expect blizzard do something.

[Ernesto]

Originally posted by Nateyooh:

If you can't handle some sh*t talk in gaming, maybe you shouldn't play online games to beginn with

This

[DemiseKey]

y'all need to go speak to people they way you are speaking online

[DemiseKey]

Originally posted by Venenati:

Better mute the chat than expect blizzard do something.

yeah i know lol it's more the premise of their terms of service and them not actually having a report system that works adequately

[Hateaddict]

Until blizzard stops allowing people to have multiple accounts under the same license, they'll never stop. Blizzard actually encourages people to bypass their account bans by playing on another account on same license. The biggest laugh is people in game telling you they are reporting you. okay cool, you're still trash. The moment I go back to login in screen, im on another account and back in game less than 10 seconds. You did absolutely nothing to me. Muting people like me who love being toxic is far more punishing that having me log onto another account in seconds to do it all over again. I have more free OW accounts than people have brain cells in bronze league.

[Millertyme]

I can speak from experience here. I'm what you would call a repeat offender. Paying money to blizzard doesn't give you special immunity. I lost my MAIN account and Pink Mercy Charity skin for life, the account has been permanently banned since early last summer. I have 2 other accounts currently suspended until April.

Typically my sessions start smooth, then everything unravels a few games later, especially if I encounter the same people. I have people in the chat that will say something like this :

Please report (me) for throwing and being racist in the end game chat because they lost to me the previous game and I wasn't even being racist. They are just trying to get a new group of players to false report me.

I constantly have games where I want to tank and we get 2 healers, 1 healer will quit after first death and swap to a dps or both healers will be hard focused dps and not healing. Examples are Lucio speed boost only, finishes 10 min game with 3k damage and 300 healing, or I get a Moira in 10 min game doing 8k damage and 2k healing.

I get it Moira needs to do damage to heal, Moira is my favourite healer, but when I use her my damage and healing numbers are generally the same.

I also run into feeding toxic dps players that flame me on tank or healer, these players love to tell me how to play the game. The other day for example I had 4 games where I was playing Rein, and Bastion would harass me for not being his personal shield. Everyone knows a tanks job is to make space, you cant make space sitting in the back line shielding a bastion when you are trying to capture a point, especially if your'e the only tank.But this doesn't stop them from being really toxic

I get lots of games where I'm healing and the tank will flame me and the dps for not doing anything while they the tank are not doing anything. Example: King's Row (Attack) Tank stands at the choke after bus the entire 4 min round never pushes and says "I'm waiting for picks" but tanks are suppose to make space.

Throw in the feeders, trolls, afk's, the mid game leavers, the odd aim bot, the odd wall hacker, the smurfs boosting their friends, the guy typing paragraphs or report someone mid fight while the other 4 are fighting on the point and dying, all the above scenarios, my poor mental health at times and I can get really toxic really fast.

I generally call my team mates bozos and trash. I sometimes play like the people in my prior game. So if I play tank and the healers are not trying to heal I follow up that game playing Pistol Mercy, or Bap shooting only, or Zen shooting and not using healing orb just discord.

Finally I have NEVER logged into the game with the intent to troll or be toxic. That toxicity comes out as a result of other players treating me like garbage over several games.
I get spammed with many thank you messages from blizzard for reporting the above behaviours and eventually get suspended myself. Totally justified.

The only fix I can think of is boosting the avoid teammate slots from 3 to 100, or when you report someone they are permanently restricted from being in your game (on your team or the enemy team) this would hurt your wait times but honestly I'd rather wait 5-10 min for a game if I knew I was playing with cool headed people

Long rant sorry. Enjoy your week everyone :)

[DemiseKey]

Originally posted by Hateaddict:

Muting people like me who love being toxic is far more punishing that having me log onto another account in seconds to do it all over again. I have more free OW accounts than people have brain cells in bronze league.

this is very very valid actually